Past Programs
Books - 2006
A Crude Realisation About Oil
07/01/2006
Oil is a resource we cannot live without, yet few of us know how and when it was discovered -- or how many products are made from it or are dependent on it, from cars to fertilizers and pesticides, plastics -- and even stockings.
Corporations and nations have gone into battle over finding and owning this liquid gold.
Yet it is a finite resource and debate has been stirring on when levels of oil will start declining, and what we will do then.
